#Studio Gallop

[theblindarcher]

I am the number 1 ranked Duelist in the country and the favorite to win the Duel Monsters Championship. You wouldn't last two minutes in a Duel against me.

Pixel art bust of Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh. Made as a subscriber suggestion for August.

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Rurouni Kenshin Studio Gallop 1996

[drilanime]

[namitomoon]

The fact that the Eyeshield 21 anime is lame is triple painful for me as: a) an Eyeshield 21 manga fan, b) a Yusuke Murata fan and c) a Yu-Gi-Oh GX fan

After all, it's very likely that the reason most of the GX episodes were outsourced to DongWoo (thus the animation being PowerPoint-y most of the time) is because Studio Gallop was pretty much focusing their best animators and resources to Eyeshield 21.

Eyeshield 21 was Gallop's last long-running shonen project before they became a studio focused primarily to Yugioh anime (from 5Ds onwards you can notice a hike in animation) and low-budget children/educational shows. Hataraki Man was a short seinen anime and Me and Robocco is probably the first ambitious project they take after Konami pretty much fired them as their Yugioh animators.

I wonder if at some point Konami was like "yeah, maybe we should have just stayed at Toei"

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Aster Phoenix from Yu-Gi-Oh! GX shares a voice actor with Big the Cat from the Sonic the Hedgehog series (2003-2010; 2015).

Voiced by Oliver Wyman

[dorothydalmati1]

Rurouni Kenshin Season 1 Episode 1: The Handsome Swordsman of Legend: A Man who Fights for Love

Written by Michiru Shimada

Directed and storyboarded by Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Animation directed by Kobayashi Kazuyuki

[des-shinta]

Shinta's take on: Yugioh 5D's, GX and Bonds Beyond Time

As we near the end of this Long-Delayed retrospective, Shinta Detours to discuss the first two yugioh sequel series, and their crossover movie tied into 5D's story.

[super-heroinecomparisons]

Ririka from Nurse Angel Ririka SOS (1995).

[fictional-brides]

Chacha from Akazukin Chacha

[namitomoon]

This. The Yu-Gi-Oh! anime has always been, even back from the Toei era, a commercial for the card game. An elaborated, flashy, enjoyable and overall pretty good commercial. Both in dub AND sub.

The only real difference in approach is that the sub is a shonen anime targeted to teenagers mainly while the dub is focused on a much younger audience (both in the 4Kids and Konami Cross Media eras) precisely to promote the card game among them, hence the dubious "honor" of being one of the last remaining anime franchises to keep using the 4Kids handbook (despite the ironic fact that Yu-Gi-Oh is pretty much the main reason 4Kids went bankrupt) thus the censorship and the added cornyness.

Personally, I'm a sub purist but I can also acknowledge (with reservations) that the dub also has its merits and in *enjoyment* sometimes it's better than the sub. If you're able to look past the sub's inherent "commercial" raison-de-être because of Shin Yoshida sometimes adding a cool narrative esoteric element or Kenichi Hara making an amazing fluid sakuga sequence I think it's also reasonable to look past the dub's reason to be censored and acknowledge some merits there and there (some VA performances for example). And I say this as someone who made a (deleted) criticizing the dub for being precisely more "commercial".

Btw, most shonen anime are also very commercial in nature. Yu-Gi-Oh is just way more evident. But don't deny that MHA or Demon Slayer are also looking to sell you merchandise in the form of figures, posters, plushies, THE MANGA VOLUMES THEMSELVES, etc.

a really crazy thing i see people say sometimes in criticism of the yugioh dubs is that they're "just a big commercial" for the card game

which is not untrue but i've been watching go rush as it airs on tv tokyo every week for almost a year and there are literally NO commercials aired during the yugioh block except those for the ocg. it's just back to back yugioh card game tins/box sets/card pack ads. and occasionally a stray ad for a yugioh videogame

you can't pretend it hasn't always been Please Buy Our Merch all the way down like i promise you that it is. and that doesn't take away from it being a good story! that's just what a hobbyani is!

[kujakumai]

It's so sad that the anime inserted like one (1) blink-and-you'll-miss-it computer screen frame stating Kaiba does Judo and then completely removed all of the canon scenes where Joey kicks someone's ass, giving everyone an extremely wrongheaded view of their respective fighting prowess. It's a good thing I live in the manga world where none of that stuff can hurt me

[acquired-stardust]

Rurouni Kenshin Studio Gallop 1996

[drilanime]

[namitomoon]

Just finished the Grand Championship arc (might make a mini-review later but overall it was kinda meh ig) and started the Pharaoh's Memories arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

And I have to say its first episode was very solid in direction and production values-wise. I am aware S5 is kinda infamous for having the lowest animation in the series due to the retirement of Yumeta, so it's kinda nice that the first episode is at least good.

Especially because it sets the mood for the entire arc. It feels darker and obscure, a huge contrast with the previous arc, sometimes it reminded me of the manga. It was written by Shin Yoshida so...it makes sense I guess.

I looked up and it was made by Studio Gallop in-house with Akio Hirakawa as AD. I think he did a good job and even though I don't dislike his style, I can't help but missing Kagami's (comparison image not made by me)

I loved seeing young Sugukurou in action sorting out traps and showing him as a smoking badass gambler and explorer

I really liked the short exchange between Yugi and his grandpa. It was nice seeing how young Yugi had matured and grown, being able to talk back to his grandpa and show decisiveness in not giving him his God Cards. It's even better when you have the background of the manga or the Toei series (which I guess NAS expected you to have, at least in Japan)

Bonus reaction images.

I also liked how the reappearance of Bakura was made (although I have my doubts about the decision of replacing the thief that robbed the God cards with Ryuzaki and Haga)

I don't usually make episode-by-episode reviews but I liked this so much I decided to at least point it out.

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Leo and Luna from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's both share a voice actress with Ritsu Tainaka from K-ON!.

Voiced by Cassandra Lee Morris

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